Ex-VON DG Lauds Tinubu Over Renewed Anti-graft War

A former director general of the Voice of Nigeria (VON) Mr Osita Okechukwu has christened President Bola Tinubu’s anti-graft war as “Hope Renewal” and identification with Nigerian masses nationwide.

Okechukwu, a founding member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) said this at the Akanu Ibiam International Airport, Enugu yesterday when he reacted to the Economic Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) recent interrogation of the utilisation of foreign exchange allocated by the Central Bank of Nigeria for industrialisation.
He urged Tinubu to “bail-us-out” from the economic stranglehold of one percent ‘Class of Deep Pockets’ who over the years mangled the petro-dollars allocated to them for industrial development, hence failed to lift millions out of poverty.

Okechukwu, who agreed that the nation remained in dire need of bailing citizens out from the stranglehold of the one per cent class, noted that the one percent class had been feeding fat on the sordid-forex market.
According to him, it is courageous for Tinubu, whom I rank among the rich class, to evoke the ageless thesis of class suicide, albeit, being a member. The president is well heeled to wage this Herculean anti-graft-war.

This, he said, would amount to identification with the collective interest of masses nationwide; as most of the masses held the earnest view that Nigeria needed to recover more monies, as it was not only late Gen. Sani Abacha that stashed the nation’s monies abroad.

“When one learnt that the Ola Olukoyede-led EFCC raided the Dangote Headquarters and other big wig firms, it was with nostalgia that one recalled the famous pledge at Independence Thanksgiving Service, National Ecumenical Christian Centre, Abuja, made by our dear First Lady, Senator Remi Tinubu.
“Senator Remi Tinubu clearly said that – Nigeria’s wealth is the commonwealth of all, it belongs to everyone.

“God has blessed my family, we don’t need the wealth of Nigeria to survive but to do the right thing and I promise you that with your help, and with the help of God, we will set this nation on the right path,” he said. (NAN)